A Production Manager Agrees in a Meeting to Modify an Order

question 66

Multiple Choice

A production manager agrees in a meeting to modify an order for the sales department, but then ignores the request later because of the ongoing conflict between the two departments. This passive aggressive type of behavior occurs in which stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict?

• A) expressed conflict
• B) perceived conflict
• C) manifest conflict
• D) conflict aftermath

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Definitions:

Batches

Groups of items or goods processed or produced together within a specified time frame in manufacturing or production.

Product Margins

The difference between the selling price of a product and the cost of goods sold, representing the profit made on each product.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing methodology that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, improving the accuracy of product and service costing.

Activity Cost Pools

A grouping of all costs associated with a particular activity, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.